Paul Alan Yule

Who is Paul Alan Yule?

Paul Alan Yule is an archaeologist at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He studied at the University of Minnesota, New York University and Marburg University. His main work targets the archaeology of India, Oman, and the Yemen.

Yule's dissertation, Early Cretan Seals, classifies and dates the seals from the Early and Middle Bronze Ages on Minoan Crete.

In the 1980s, with the support of Swami Omanand Saraswati, he catalogued and evaluated metallic artefacts of the so-called Copper Hoard Culture by means of European methods and models for the first time, whereby numerous finds came to light in the Kanya Gurukul in Narela/Haryana. These artefacts appear to be non-functional objects, probably used in rituals or simply deposited in hoards, to judge from a lack of use-wear. Far away in Odisha, Yule published a find from a metals period cemetery in Sankarjang may be the earliest musical instrument in India. He documented the early historic fortress at Sisupalgarh by means of a laser scanner, ground penetrating radar and a hand-held GPS receiver. Together with Corinna Borchert Yule uncovered illegal building development within this nationally protected Mauryan site.